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And now that they've been acquired, the buck stops with him, right?
And now that they've been acquired, the buck stops with him, right?
And now that they've been acquired, the buck stops with him, right?
Well, my comment was loaded with irony but Google are already very active in the energy market and your FERC already authorised them to buy and sell energy at market rates so they are a de facto player and heavily biased towards renewables and efficiencies.
Google Energy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google wants to pay more for renewable energy, and power companies are listening | The Verge
They are doing it, at least in part, to deflect criticism of the energy their data centers require. The Nest plays no part in that.
I'm sure it does long term. Google are an energy provider and Nest is a smart thermostat. Utility Co's install smart meters which are information and control devices that are able to limit supply, bill at time of use and remotely turn the supply off to your home at the touch of a button.
They are reselling energy, not because they want to be an energy provider, but rather to resell "clean" energy to offset the "dirty" energy they are using. There is no other reason. They are even on the record as saying they have no intention of being a utility.
Google is on the way to quietly becoming an electric utility – Quartz